Wardrobe.



' Nol 813,871.

PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

P. DOWD.

WARDROBE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1905.

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WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATRICK DOWD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WARDROBE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed June 29, 1905. Serial No. 267,521.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK Down, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in .Wardrobes, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a wardrobe especially adapted for use in schools, assembly halls and rooms, or rooms adapted for large gatherings, but which can be used with equally good results in private dwellings, the wardrobe being so constructed that it will accommodate a maximum quantity of clothing and so that each individual can have a separate division or compartment.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide the wardrobe with a series of slidable counterbalancepartitions arranged one in front of the other, each partition having a series of hooks and an open compartment for each hook, and, furthermore, to so construct the wardrobe that by raising the forward partitions the rear partitions are readily accessible, as while the partitions are in use they rest upon the bottom of the Wardrobe, but when not required the partitions occupy the space at the upper portion of the Wardrobe.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the interior of a room and the improved wardrobe erected therein, parts of the wardrobe being broken away and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the wardrobe.

The wardrobe A is shown extending from the floor to the ceiling, and consists of sides 10, the wall 11, constituting the back, and the floor of the room the bottom of the wardrobe, and the ceiling of the room the top. The wardrobe is provided with a front section 12, extending from the floor to about half the height of its casing, and in the front a doorway 14. is formed, preferably of such size as to permit a person to enter the wardrobe. The said doorway 14is normally closed by a door 15. p The sides are double, the inner section 10 of the sides stopping short of the top of the wardrobe proper, as is shown in Fig. 2, whereby to form side pockets 10 Vertical slideways 16 are erected upon the inner side members 10 of the wardrobe, and in opposing slideways partitions B are mounted to slide. Each partition B is provided with a series of vertical ribs 18, which extend from the bottom usually to a point near the top, and these ribs 18 divide the partitions into a series of open compartments 17, and in each of said compartments a hook 19 is located, as is best shown in Fig. 2.

Pulleys 20 are secured to the upper edge of the inner side members 10, and cables 21 are secured to the upper end portions of the partitions. The said cables 21 are passed over the pulleys 20'down into the pockets 10 and at their lower ends are attached to weights 22, which weights more than counterbalance the partitions B. When the wardrobe is not in usethat is to say, when the clothing has been removed therefrom-the partitions are carried upward, so as to occupy the upper portion of the casing or body of the wardrobe. When the wardrobe is in use and it is is desired to gain access to clothing on a rear partition, the forward partitions are simply pushed upward out of the way.

When the wardrobe is used in a school, for example, each pupil can be provided with a hook which will belong to that particular pupil, and in public assemblies where clothing is to be cared for temporarily each compartment may have a number and a correspondingly-numbered check be issued to each person leaving the clothing.

It is obvious that a wardrobe of this description is as useful in a private dwelling as in a large hall.

When the wardrobe is built against the wall, as is shown in Fig. 1, hooks 23 may be screwed into the wall, if so desired, and the wall where the hooks are placed be divided off into compartments by vertical ribs 24, as is also shown in Fig. 1.

I desire it to be understood that by the word cable I mean cords, ropes, or chains.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A wardrobe provided with a series of counterbalanced partitions, slidable in its casmg.

2. A wardrobe provided with a series of opposing slideways, and partitions of less height than the height of the wardrobe, which partitions are mounted in said slideways, guidepulleys carried by the casing, cables attached to the said partitions and passed over the said pulleys, and weights attached to the ends of the said cables.

3. In a wardrobe, a casing, counterbalancepartitions having vertical sliding movement insaid casin said partitions being provided with series oi vertical ribs dividing them into compartments, and a hook in each of the said compartments.

4. In a wardrobe, a casing provided with side pockets open at the top and slideways upon its inner face, partitions of less height than the height of the casing mounted to slide in the said slideways, each partition being divided into a series of compartments by vertical parallel ribs, a hook in each of the said compartments, pulleys secured within the casing at the upper open portion of the pockets, cables attached to the upper end portions of the partitions, which cables are passed over the said pulleys into the said pockets, and weights attached to the lower ends of the said cables. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' PATRICK DOWD. Witnesses:

J. FRED. AOKER, JNo. M. BITTER. 

